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...question of the Belgian Premier's double salary was reopened with a bang. Rexist Degrelle declared that. whether or not the Premier was getting his money, the National Bank of Belgium still carried Paul van Zeeland's 600,000 Belgian franc salary on its books. It was thereupon revealed that at least part of this sum had been quietly pocketed by the bank's Governor Louis Franck and the other directors. Nobody was greatly exercised when Premier van Zeeland belatedly admitted that he had accepted bonuses in 1934 and 1935 when he had left active politics...
...solved in ten days. One in every six-9,000-came through this. A third set of 90 puzzles most fiendishly devised served only to prove the calibre of the 9,000, of whom 8,160 returned correct answers in five days. In accordance with the rules, the contest thereupon became literary, each survivor having to submit an essay on the increased popularity of Old Golds in his or her community as a result of the contest. Last week Lorillard positively refused to make public any of the prize-winning letters or the names of the judges. Second prize...
...which West Chester is a suburb) has three advantages-temperate climate, propinquity to a sophisticated market and to a big supply of horse manure. Just after the Revolution, when Philadelphia was the U. S. capital, local high livers discovered the mushrooms that had grown wild locally for years. Farmers thereupon tried to grow them artificially. Sometimes they got good crops, sometimes none. Then in 1904 Edward Henry Jacob, an accountant in a cream separator plant, began experimenting with mushrooms...
...dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time. Thereupon Wendy leaves the bridegroom waiting at the church, goes to work for Curson as a model...
...emergency. Greatly perturbed by Baum, Bernheimer's strange successes, the Investment Bankers' Association sponsored a bill at the last session of the State Legislature to enforce public offering of all bonds sold in lots of more than $20,000. The bill expired in committee. St. Louis bankers thereupon asked and received from sedate Governor Stark written assurance that the next time Missouri bonds were put on the market they would be opened to competitive bidding. Lulled by the Governor's words, they woke up shocked and angry last fortnight when the State Board of Fund Commissioners blandly...